first you have to understand what the battle in the Cold War wasGloryofGreece wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 6:30 amI understand that but I'm just wondering what Smitty thinks was the real movers and shakers in the 1800s...was it really the Rothschilds or whatever haha. In Game of Thrones they had the Bank of Bravos ...Also wouldn't the Cold War hollow out Russia too? The 1980s got a bump b/c of the financialization of the economy. It was a sort of fake bump in hindsight.
the military front was a stalemate
the actual battle was by consumer products and information technology
the financialization of the economy was the onset of the Information Age epoch
when the Iron & Bamboo curtains fell, the floodgates were opened
thus the price fixing was in the consumer products & information technology
the mechanism was offshoring
the 1919 analogy is that on the military front America had just declared victory
but that victory was not actually a win for Main Street USA
this is where the revanchsim comes from
the Germans thought they were winning the war in 1918, then all of a sudden they were "stabbed in the back"
on the one hand you had the ticker tape victory parade for the Gulf War as the de facto end of the Cold War
but on the other hand you had the Democrats saying "it's the economy stupid"
Americans were told that they had won the war
yet America was being chopped up and shipped overseas in a Neoliberal Treaty of Globalist Versailles
like the First World War, the Cold War was not actually won by any side
what simply happened was the modern world collapsed into a postmodern world
then there was a backlash, the modern world was reimposed by the Second World War
that remained a frozen conflict until 1989
after forty years, the stalemate simply collapsed,
in the wake, postmodernity, which was incited first in 1919, was back immediately
the Iron & Bamboo Curtains had been holding it back, when those fell, the epoch arrived overnight
the Cold War had kept things frozen in time, frozen in 1945, when it ended, postmodernity was at hand
think of the First World War as being like the Big Bang of Postmodernity
it was a shift from industrial power to information power
the shock of that incited a counterrevolutionary war, the Second World War
that war was able to hold the tide back, postmodernity was sealed up behind walls, Curtains we said
but it could only hold out for so long, eventually information power prevailed, it spilled over the top of the walls
